Nadine Pinede is the author of An Invisible Geography, poems of place and displacement. Her work has appeared in Spoon River Poetry Review, Haiti Noir, and Becoming: What Makes a Woman. An Elizabeth George and a Brown Foundation fellow, she serves on the board of the Hurston/Wright Foundation.

Kim Stafford is the author of a dozen books of poetry and prose, including 100 Tricks Every Boy Can Do: How My Brother Disappeared; The Muses Among Us; and Early Morning: Remembering My Father, William Stafford. He directs the Northwest Writing Institute at Lewis & Clark College.

Ana Maria Spagna is the author of two essay collections, Now Go Home and Potluck, and the history/memoir Test Ride on the Sunnyland Bus, winner of the River Teeth literary nonfiction prize. She is assistant director of the MFA program at Northwest Institute of Literary Arts.

Anna Bálint is the author of three books. Her story collection Horse Thief explores intersections of lives and cultures and was a finalist for the PNBA Book Award. Currently, she is working on a novel rooted in the Roma experience of the Holocaust. She is an editor for Raven Chronicles magazine.

Danielle Legros Georges is a poet, essayist, and associate professor at Lesley University. She is the author of a book of poems, Maroon.